Phoben
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Posted - 2009.11.04 17:46:00 -
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 Originally by: MIND SCR4MBLER
CCP rule on salvage therefore follows the law on salvage at sea. if you find a wreck in the sea, ooh say the titanic or a spanish galleon full of treasure then under international maritime laws its yours to claim.
Now lets say said wreck is the bismarck. sunk by the british navy in 1943. carebear emowhiner would shout "no! you cannot salvage thee wreck, belongeth to me, the british navy!" when in reality salvaging is done by hardy folk on specialist salvage vessels with lots of expensive diving and recovery gear, principally on account of the fact the navyz of the world consider it their bizness to blow up teh ships and not recoverz the lootz which is left for seafaring salvage monkeys and treasure hunters. After all if the british navy was so bothered by salvage why did they leave so much gold at the bottom of the carribbean eh?
So before you come here spouting about "those darn CCP and there lack of legal morals", i suggest you avail yourself of free trip to library and look up the international maritime laws of salvage, on which all future laws of space will no doubt be based.
So what we have here is validation of your ignorance OP, and not CCP's.
official law on salvage therefore "finders keepers, losers emoragetearers, or quite simply first to the wreck wins"
not really correct....
all wrecks are owned by someone, owner or insurance company, a salvager finding the wreck and taking from it must declare the salvage to the relevant authorities in the port they first come to ( or port of origin). Its then upto the authorities to find the legal owners of the ship, its then a deal between the legal owner and salvager for payment in lieu of salvage. It all gets pretty legal after that
for in game mechanics it would work that someone pilferring wrecks would have to declare the goods to the authorities and then a deal could be struck for cold hard cash to part with the loot. If so wished or the looter has to give up the salvage or faces prosecution from the authorities.
and Navys of the world take a real dim view of turning up on their sunken ships full of dead sailors and ripping salvage off them for profit.
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